i the backward.....

yeah it's started to happen....those witty tenagers have started puling fast0ones on me.....and i'm flabbergasted....to say the least....they say its the process of being backwardised.....yeah i'm getting backward....

well the process is not new....my grandparents experienced it in their sixties......my parents in their forties...when we kids took control and told the elders what new could be done and they, with some difficulty, accepted it......but wait a minute, what the heck, i can't experience it at 25....

but the world doesn't care......the pace is scorching......

to say the least my young cousins arethe modern day experts..right from choosing a mobile phone to which bank to have a credit card from....they are the people to be consulted....coz they know much more than i do.....gawd when did that happen!!!!

but you scartch the surface and you realise they are half cooked brownies and are yet to understand the usefulness of details....well but then they call it collateral damage.....their understanding of cost benefit analysis as a concept is much better than what my teachers at college had....oooffff.....

trust me till date, i have not been able to convince my father of the benefts of a credit card.....but those 15 year ols bulldozed me into appreciating the benefits of using a bluetooth enabled camera to make phone calls over the simple device i have been carrying as a mobile phone for the last 4 years.....

but his late night session with myself has thrown up a unsettling question.....does this change in products used also bring in change in way the world thinks....has materialism really taken over the way the youngsters of today think???...and in this race am i getting left behind with the old world ideals of makng the best use of resources and only taking up the things i can find a use for??.....

the answer is quite unique.....this change of life style...this coming to prominence of trivial things has been happening for centuries....my grndparents appreciated the use of ATMs very late in life.....my parents find it difficult to purchase on credit when they can make payments in cash.....but noneof them stopped the next generation from using these articles....my parents use ATMs....i use credit cards....but they were firmly rooted so as to not be overawed by these things around them...this was coz they at some point in life realized that getting backward didnot really make that much of a difference and they accepted that they did not want to change beyond a point....but i find it difficult to accept it.....for heavens sake they in their fifties & forties could accept their inability to change, i at 25 am finding it difficult to be sucked in by materialism (well that's the way i percieve it).....but then who cares about what i feel........like it or not...as i resist ....I am being backwardised

but there are warnings real big warnings......i wll try and find answers to these and keep u posted.....but till the time i get them....i'm not buying a camera to make my phone calls.....:)